..and many of you are either sitting in your green gardens, sailing, playing golf, tennis or football, but for those of you who live out here, are skiing out here or just enjoy knowing what's going on in the off-piste in the region, Wayne Watson from Alpine Experience, gives a great description of his morning and the snow conditions off piste in the Espace Killy at the moment as more snow comes in and winter returns once again:
Wow, what a fabulous morning! It had to be some of the best spring snow, without the sun, that I can remember in quite some time. Only a centimetre or two of fresh snow fell overnight, but it was enough for the new snow to ‘eat into’ the surface layer and soften it to a nice texture without the warmth of the sun being needed to melt the frozen surface. It was +5C at 8AM with grey skies and a foehn wind of up to 80kph blowing it didn’t look like it was going to be such a good ski, but once on the snow I knew we were in for a good day. We started out with an excellent Alti-port/Lavachet, followed by a good Cocaine Sud, then a stunning Cocaine Nord, and then a superb Lavachet but from the top through the avalanche barriers. From there we skied a funky Familial to the bottom arriving around 1:20PM to finish off Jean R’s 93rd and last morning of a terrific season. We’ll miss his company and his excellent photographic input to the website. Merci beaucoup Jean!
And here's a photo from Jean Ribart of Wayne skiing some of the nice spring snow described above:
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